Lifeboats being launched from on board the Orient Line cruise ship Orion (1935) during an exercise in an unknown Baltic port. The photographer is at the top of the port side accommodation ladder looking forward showing a boat drill for the crew with three boats in the water and four still in their falls. All of the boats are fully manned. The seaboat number 2 just abaft the bridge wing is swung out and lowered to boat deck level. The location is almost certainly one of the ports on the south coast of the Baltic. A vertical format negative. Negatives numbers P84371 to P84377 inclusive were taken on the same occasion.